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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

HON. WILLIAM E. WARWICK.

    Hon. William E. Warwick, who for a number of years has been one of the
forceful and honored factors in public life and business circles in Whiting, has
attained to prominence through force of his character, the exercise of his
talent and the utilization of opportunities. By education and training he was
well qualified for the important position which he is now filling, that of first
assistant superintendent for the Standard Oil Company, at Whiting, where is
located the largest plant of the kind in the world. He is also the
vice-president of the First National Bank of Whiting, and his business career
has won the respect of his contemporaries and excited their warm admiration. It
is not this alone, however, that entitles him to rank as one of the foremost men
of his city, for his connection with its public interests has been far-reaching
and beneficial. He has aided in shaping the municipal policy, and his patriotic
citizenship has taken tangible form in his zealous labors for the improvements
instituted through aldermanic measures. He is now the mayor of Whiting, and as
its chief executive is giving an administration characterized by a business-like
spirit and by substantial upbuilding and progress.

    Mr. Warwick was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on the 13th of January, 1862.
His father, William P. Warwick, was born in Dahlonega, Georgia, but was
partially reared in New York city. He became a lumberman of Wisconsin, where he
has resided for many years, still making his home in that state. He wedded Miss
Mary Palmer, a native of Waukegan, Illinois, but her death occurred when she was
thirty-five years of age. In the family were two daughters, but one is now
deceased.

    Hon. William E. Warwick, the only son, was reared in the place of his
nativity until seventeen years of age, and from the age of six years he attended
the public schools, thus acquiring a good practical education. On leaving
Wisconsin he went to Bedford, Iowa, where he lived two years with an uncle, who
was engaged in farming there. Then he began teaching in the country schools of
Iowa, and in the meantime he had begun preparation for college, wishing to gain
a more advanced education, the value of which he realized. He attended the Iowa
State Agricultural College, and during the periods of vacation engaged in
teaching school in order to meet the expenses of his college course. He was
graduated in 1888, and the following year he came to Whiting, where he accepted
the position of mechanical draftsman for the Standard Oil Company, acting in
that capacity for about two years. He was then made assistant master mechanic,
and thus served until the 1st of December, 1893, when he was transferred to the
paraffine department as its superintendent. For almost ten years he acted in
that capacity, and in November, 1903, he was made first assistant superintendent
of the works, which position he is now filling. This plant is the largest in the
world of its kind, two thousand men being employed, and the position of Mr.
Warwick is therefore a most important and responsible one. He is yet a
comparatively young man, his thorough practical training, his close application
and his sound business judgment well qualify him for the onerous duties that
devolve upon him. He is likewise the vice-president of the First National Bank
of Whiting.

    In October, 1902, Mr. Warwick was united in marriage to Miss Ella
Fredenberg. They have a pleasant home in Wheeling which is noted for its
gracious and warm-hearted hospitality. Fraternally he is a Mason, having taken
the three degrees of the blue lodge. In his political views Mr. Warwick is a
gold Democrat, and after the incorporation of Whiting as a city in 1903 he was
elected its first mayor and is still its chief executive. He came to Whiting
when the town was being laid out by the Standard Oil Company, which built its
extensive works here, and with the growth and progress of the place he has since
been identified, doing all in his power for its substantial improvement and
upbuilding. He is a public-spirited citizen, has wrought along modern lines of
progress, both in his business and his public life, and in Whiting he commands
the respect and confidence of the great majority of those with whom he has come
in contact.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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